Synopsis

(Required) The character sequence /* shall not be used within a C-style comment

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/High

Full description

Detected /* inside comments This check is identical to COMMENT-nested, MISRAC++2008-2-7-1, MISRAC2004-2.3, MISRAC++2023-5.7.1.

Coding standards

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

void example(void) {
	/* This comment starts here
	/* Nested comment starts here
	*/
}

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

void example(void) {
	/* This comment starts here */
	/* Nested comment starts here
	*/
}